Mohonk Preserve 2016 Year in Review Dear Supporters, Strong nonprofit organizations make a significant social impact. We are grateful for your generous support which ensures that Mohonk Preserve’s social impact goes well beyond just protecting the treasured Shawangunk Mountains. By inspiring people to care for, enjoy and explore their natural world, the Preserve’s social impact is seen in peoples’ connection to nature and what they are inspired to do as a result of those experiences to make our world a better place. Now more than ever, we need people who are ready, willing and able to actively safeguard and support conservation of our natural lands. With your help, we bring people of all ages closer to the nature in their lives, and through their experiences on the land, help them to foster a deep and unbreakable bond with and respect for how nature works to sustain all life on our planet. You are helping us to train the next generation of conservationists with our college internships, teen Junior Rangers and Youth Nature Ambassadors programs, elementary school field studies, and our Young Explorers summer day camps. Your support also allows us to engage citizen scientists in our nature observation and Climate Tracker programs. And you are helping us to save key conservation lands for people, plants and animals through our land protection and stewardship programs. In this time of national and local concern about protecting our natural resources and safeguarding the health of our communities, the Preserve is stepping up our efforts with your generous support. A recent national study found that less than 13% of the population hikes, but thanks to members and supporters like you, we’ve helped 20,000 of our neighbors get into healthy outdoor activities through our free Healthy Ulster pass program. Even our lands are hard at work year round. Did you know that our 8,000 acres of protected forests save 9,100 metric tons of carbon each year from being released into the atmosphere, and provide clean drinking water naturally-filtered by our groundwater aquifer? Thanks to your integral support of the Preserve, the land, and these programs, the Preserve works year- round to have a positive social impact on our community, region and beyond. You are the folks who make it all possible and we’re proud to partner with you in this important work as we continue in our 54th year of saving the land for life. With gratitude, Glenn Hoagland, President Jim Hoover, Board Chair 2016 YEAR IN REVIEW Mohonk Preserve By The Numbers 200,000 VISITORS 15,000 MEMBERS 300+ VOLUNTEERS 14,000 VOLUNTEER SERVICE HOURS 8,000+ ACRES PROTECTED Photos top to bottom: View of the Trapps by Gerald Berliner; Hikers on Bonticou Crag by June Archer; Climbers on Carbs and Caffeine (5.11b) by mohonkpreserve.org Christian Fracchia; Trail construction by 845-255-0919 Susan Lehrer; Jolly Rovers Trail Crew by Emily Hague; Millbrook Ridge by Gerald Berliner 2016 YEAR IN REVIEW Land Protection PROTECTED additional acres of the 61 Shawangunk Mountains Region PROTECTED 49 acre Ramey Parcel featuring frontage on the Coxing Kill, forested seeps and talus slopes PROTECTED acre12 Vlachos Parcel featuring small cliff exposures and hemlock, hardwood and pine forests 1/3of the total boundary monitored 16conservation easement monitoring visits OVER 8,000 acres of mountain ridges, forests, fields, streams, ponds and other unique and beautiful places PROTECTED Photos top to bottom: Boundary Monitoring by Emily mohonkpreserve.org Hague; View of the Ridge by Scott A. Jordan; Ramey 845-255-0919 Parcel by Emily Hague; Vlachos Parcel by Emily Hague; Boundry Marker by Ed Pestone; Mohonk Preserve Foothills by Scott A. Jordan 2016 YEAR IN REVIEW Land Stewardship trail improvement 4 projects completed with partners NY-NJ Trail Conference Jolly Rovers Trail Crew Bruderhof Woodcrest Community San Miguel Academy 2.7miles of Trapps Carriage Road resurfaced from Trapps Bridge to Lyons Road people91 provided with emergency services 28 Ranger service days responding to wildfire operations 50+ Staff and program students certified in First Aid and CPR by Chief Ranger Andrew Bajardi Photos top to bottom: Trail Keepers by Jeffrey D. Haines; Jolly Rovers Trail Crew by Emily Hague; Trapps Carriage Road by Glenn D. Hoagland; Rescue Training by mohonkpreserve.org Amanda Rogers; Wildfire Operations by Eric 845-255-0919 Hepperle; San Miguel Academy of Newburgh Wilderness First Aid Training by Jay Diggs; 2016 YEAR IN REVIEW Conservation Science 120years of continuous weather data 43,800+ days of volunteers recording the weather MESONET Mohonk Preserve established as an automated Mesonet Weather Station site delivering real-time weather data 7,500+ hawk observations recorded by citizen scientists during North America's annual Hawk Migration Week 40+ citizen scientists contributed 8,000+ observations recording bird arrival dates, plant bloom dates, and mammal and insect emergence 100+ years of unparalleled research, collections, and natural history embodied in the Mohonk Preserve Daniel Smiley Research Center continuing our knowledge of nature into the next century. Photos top to bottom: American Kestrel banding by Marc Sweet; Climate Trackers by Christy Belardo; Mesonet Weather Station mohonkpreserve.org by Elizabeth Long; Hawk Watch by 845-255-0919 Jacob B. Reibel; Phenology by Susan Lehrer; DSRC Archives by Janet Lee Bachant 2016 YEAR IN REVIEW Environmental Education 4,600+ children served 15% increase from 2015 150 campers participated in our expanded summer camp programs NEW PROGRAM Project- Based Learning NEW PROGRAM Youth Nature Ambassadors NEW PROGRAM Weather and Climate Change Concerns and Solutions Photos top to bottom: San Miguel Academy of Newburgh by Renee Zernitsky; Pond Keepers program by Connie mohonkpreserve.org DeDona; Summer Camp by Anna Harrod; Project Based Learning Program by John 845-255-0919 Decker; Youth Nature Ambassadors by Susan Lehrer; San Miguel students at the Daniel Smiley Research Center by Christy Belardo 2016 YEAR IN REVIEW Financial Highlights 2016 PUBLIC SUPPORT & REVENUE $5,104,635 Includes long term support: endowment gifts $295,252 & unrealized gains $412,060 2016 EXPENSES $4,187,294 2016 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION Assets 12/31/2016 12/31/2015 Current Assets $2,254,939 $1,948,365 Investments $3,610,828 $3,846,864 Endowments $5,843,913 $5,455,359 Land $6,684,487 $6,270,209 Fixed Assets $7,083,507 $6,866,566 Total $25,477,674 $24,387,363 Total Assets $25,477,674 $24,387,363 Liabilities and Net Assets Liabilities Payables $439,887 $429,287 Deferred Revenue $7,105 $105 Note Payable $3,080,204 $2,924,835 Total Liabilities $3,527,197 $3,354,227 Net Assets $21,950,477 $21,033,136 Total Liabilities and Net Assets $25,477,674 $24,387,363 Photos Top to Bottom: Millbrook Ridge from West Trapps by Gerald Berliner; mohonkpreserve.org View of the Trapps from Millbrook Ridge by Gerald Berliner 845-255-0919 A Tradition of Giving Donor Acknowledgments Mohonk Preserve is grateful to all those who contribute in-kind gifts and services, and those who support our Auction. This generosity enables us to carry out our mission. We have made every attempt to ensure that these listings are accurate. Please let us know if you feel there have been omissions or errors. These lists represent gifts received between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2016. Photo: Bonticou Crag by Kate Schoonmaker Bequests Endowment Planned testamentary gifts to the Protecting the Shawangunk Ridge for Preserve honor an individual’s vision future generations requires robust to protect the place they care for funding that will endure as long as most. We are deeply grateful for the land itself. A perpetual investment the generosity of those people who in the Preserve, endowment gifts are include the Preserve in their estate invested into our permanent capital plans. In 2016 the Preserve received base, creating an annual source of bequests from the following: income to fund critical operations. Named endowments permanently Rev. Carol C. Cruikshank recognize an individual’s or family’s deep commitment to the Preserve. Margaret Hall* The following funds have been established with a gift or pledge of Marian Harris $50,000 or more: Ruth T. Marsh Keroden Endowed Fund Mr. Arthur Moss Matthew Bender IV Endowment Thom Scheuer The Sean E. Davis Endowment Fund The Estate of Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Philip Allan Carlson Doris Wilson Education Endowment John E. Winkler Vincent R. Clephas Endowment Jim and Mary Ottaway Endowment *Legacy Society Member Salt Family Endowment Lisa and David Endowment Photo: Students from San Miguel Photo: Bobolink by Maxine Kamin Academy of Newburgh by Jay Diggs Beverley J. Keith Joanne L. Kirk Legacy Society Ronald and May Knapp Bob Larsen and Barbara Rubin Carol B. LeFevre We are honored to acknowledge Jean A. Lerner the following group of extraordinary Richard and Barbara Marsh donors and their families who have Douglas and Regina McCorkle connected their legacy with the Thomas McCrumm Preserve’s future either through their Lynn E. McGrew will, a gift annuity, chartable trust, Jane N. Meckling insurance policy, or other estate Steven Miller and Elisa Gonzalez planning instrument. Joan Mitsner Martin Molitoris and Anissa Kapsales Thomas J. Murphy Anonymous (6) Annie O’Neill Jim and Lee Amigh Carol N. Sherwood Pettee Robert Anderberg and Jon Pettee and Elaine LaFlamme Thomas and Carol Phelan Burton and Anka Angrist Pearl G. Rainey Muriel Ayres Steven and Linda Ranney Michael Batcher and Shelly Stiles Gretchen Reed Valclav E. Benes John Reilly Matthew Bialecki Seymour V. Reit and Edmee B. Reit John B. Blenninger Carol S. Rietsma Peter Bort Tomm G. Robinson Joseph Bridges Susan Fox Rogers John Careccia Roger Roloff and Barbara Petersen June Carlson Kris Ryan-Clarke and Jeff Clarke Andrew Clegg Betsy A.